Do we really have to label everything? Must every facet of life be institutionalized? Those are some queustions raised in this chapter. We take things that are meant to be relational – like the church, which is the body of Christ, a family – and we turn it into something. An entity that exists on its own – even with the church. Is it really possible to live life without needing to create a structure, an institution, or labels for doing so?

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CH??CH. What’s missing? U R! The words adorn many a church marquee across the nation. But instead of just filling a pew on a weekly basis, perhaps those words are more true than we know. Has the focus of our gatherings shifted from being a family, and spending time “one anothering” to basically just “going through the motions”? If so, that’s not what it seems the church is meant to be. The Bible describes the church as a community of people where no one was in need, they met together, shared life together every day. Not to sit in rows, always listening to one person sing or talk, but to be together. To “one another”.

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Everything boils down to numbers. We want things to be measurable – quantifiable. We need to see results. But the numbers in God’s Kingdom do not “add up” as they do in our world. So they become irrelevant. God’s Kingdom should not be – and is not – quantifiable.

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We tend to look at people as either “IN” or “OUT” of God’s Kingdom, but Jesus did not seem to. Not that there aren’t boundaries… they just didn’t seem as important to Jesus as they are to us. He didn’t approach everyone with Border Goggles on…

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